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" But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. "

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" There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. "

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" One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. "

" It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. "

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" Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. "

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" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "

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